Beds Regt casualties reported on Monday, July 26th, 1915.

KILLED

Pte Rixom Izzard, 9775, 1st Battalion, June 29th, 1915 (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres).

Pte Walter James Perry, 12717, 1st Battalion, June 28th, 1915 (Larch Wood, Railway Cutting, Cemetery, Ypres).

Pte Ralph Salvin (28), 14905, 1st Battalion, June 30th, 1915 (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres).

Pte George Thomas Smith, 2nd Battalion, June 28th, 1915 (Le Touret Memorial).

WOUNDED

L-Cpl H. Allison, 7459, 1st Battalion.

Stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: July 31st, 1915.

The Great War would be one year old next Wednesday [August 4th] as far as Britain's involvement was concerned, an anniversary commemorated by a 'London Opinion' cartoon being reprinted in the Saturday Telegraph.

Stories from The Luton News: Thursday, July 29th, 1915.

The first organised step of the engineering firms in Beds, Herts, Bucks, Huntingdonshire and Cambs in the direction of providing munitions of war was taken at the Shire Hall, Bedford, yesterday afternoon, when a meeting of all the firms in the five counties had been called by Mr S. H. Whitbread, Lord Lieutenant of Beds.

Stories from the Beds & Herts Telegraph: July 24th, 1915.

We are glad to hear from the Mayor this morning that the 1/5th Beds are assured of getting the 1,000 mosquito nets which were mentioned at Thursday's Recruiting Committee meeting as being required by them.

Stories from The Luton News: Thursday, July 22nd, 1915.

Workers at engineering firms in Luton were given pep talks by MPs to stress the importance of their work and their town in the war effort.

Meetings were held at the Davis Gas Stove Co Ltd in Dallow Road and the Thermo-Electric Ore Reducation Corporation Ltd in Cobden Street on Monday; at Brown and Green Ltd in Windsor Street, at Balmforth and Co in Pondwicks Road, and the Vauxhall and West Hydraulic Co Ltd in Kimpton Road on Tuesday; and at Vauxhall Motors Ltd on Wednesday.

[Men of 2/1st North Midland Cyclist Corps pictured on morning parade in Dale Road, Luton, and one of their number with a folding bicycle on his back]

Stories from the Beds & Herts Saturday Telegraph: July 17th, 1915.

There was a remarkable occurrence on Thursday night which at present is veiled in mystery.

Stories from the Luton News: Thursday, July 15th, 1915.

Treasurer Mr R. Tomson Jnr, of Bedford House, New Bedford Road, acknowledged receipt of over £115 in donations to the Luton branch of the British Red Cross Society for its work at Wardown Hospital.

An accompanying letter also signed by Commandants Mrs Mary A. Green and Mrs Nora K. Durler, said over 700 patients had passed though the Wardown Hospital since it was opened in October 1914.

Stories from the Beds & Herts Telegraph: July 12th, 1915.

Stories from The Luton News: Thursday, July 8th, 1915

Last night the preliminary steps were taken at Luton towards the organising of a big campaign throughout South Bedfordshire to bring home to the people the need for economy in daily life, and the advisability of investing their savings in the War Loan.

The important part they and Luton were playing in the war was stressed to workers at the town's engineering works at a series meetings held at factories organised as part of a nationwide campaign by the Parliamentary Munitions Committee in 1915.

The following casualties among the Bedfordshire Regiment were announced on Monday, July 19th, 1915.

DIED OF WOUNDS

Sgt Alfred Albert Camp, 9127, 2nd Battalion, June 19th, 1915 (Lilliers Communal Cemetery).

Pte William Richard Pollard (24), 4/6771, 2nd Battalion, June 18th, 1915 (Lilliers Communal Cemetery).

The following lists were published on July 20th, 1915.

KILLED

Transferred from their comfortable billets in the town to the beautiful surroundings of the Stockwood desmesne, the first experiences of camp life by the men of the Lincoln and Leicester Brigade on Friday and Saturday last week were not the most agreeable.

Quartermaster-Sgt Arthur Andrews, whose award of the Distinguished Conduct Medal was announced on June 10th, revealed in a letter to his wife that he had now won a clasp to it - equivalent to winning the medal twice. It was an achievement equalled by only one other man in the Army at that time.

Among the the casualties report on July 17th:

KILLED

Sapper Arthur Frost, 1663, RE 1st East Anglian Field Coy (T.F.).

PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING NOW REPORTED KILLED

Sgt Percy Lilley (27), 4020, 5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, May 20th, 1915 (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres).

Pte John Parrott, 3217, 5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, May 20th, 1915 (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres).

Harlington has good reason to be proud of the way in which the cricket club has given of its members to serve the country. Twenty of last season's members joined the Forces.

Three or four others offered their services but for various reasons were no accepted. A few others are on war service. Is this a record for any local club, or can it be beaten?

The following are the names of the 20:

H. Abbis - Beds Yeomanry.

A. Abbis - Beds Yeomanry.

James Bonner - 1/5th Beds Regiment.

E. Bushby - Kitchener's Army.